Performance Comparison of AODV, DSR, DYMO and TORA Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of communication devices or nodes that wish to communicate without any fixed infrastructure and pre-determined organization of available links. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare the performance of Temporally-Ordered Routing Algorithm (TORA) and Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), Dynamic MANET On-demand routing protocol (DYMO) routing protocols. This paper make a comparison of these routing protocol based on the performance metrics like packet delivery ratio, end-to-end delay and throughput